John Rea

John Rea (27 January 1755-26 February 1829) was a member of the US House of Representatives (DR-PA 7) from 1803 to 1811 (succeeding Thomas Boude and preceding William Piper) and from PA-5 from 1813 to 1815 (succeeding Robert Whitehill and preceding William Maclay).

Biography
John Rea was born in Chambersburg, Pennsylvania in 1755, and he served in the Cumberland County militia during the American Revolutionary War before serving in the State House during the 1780s, 1790s, from 1801 to 1802 and in the US House of Representatives from 1803 to 1811 and from 1813 to 1815, and a State Senator from 1823 to 1824. He died in 1829.